The trade deficit is not domestic China GDP. I am in China and know what I see from my suppliers, about half of which have collapsed over the last 5yrs. You think you know what is going on, but you are just quoting what you read from the news media.
Don't believe the hype. Real GDP in China is negative. The 6% number is completely fabricated by the government, mostly based on heavily manipulated government investment and real estate. I have lived in China about half of the time for the last 20yrs. Many of our suppliers have closed or collapsed and reformed into different industries to try to survive. Our country (USA) has a real economy and freedoms the people of China are still dreaming of.
This is not new. Entire industries have been slowly moving to lower labor cost or lower political risk countries for many years. I've been in the consumer electronics business, watching the labor cost in China rise and rise for over 20yrs. It's not politics or conspiracy - just a natural economic rebalancing. China has entered "interesting" times... It will be interesting to see how well the people tolerate the totalitarian assholes when the economy collapses.
The entire US tax system has been purposely made more and more complicated by industry lobbyists, in order to create work for their entire industry. Any congressman that votes for this is a criminal.
For the last 20yrs, there has always been that 1 game I must play that is only working on Windows. Forget about Wine - performance matters. Technically though, I use both Windows and Linux - I just can't get rid of that one game, damn it.
It is really amazing how much time and money the old automakers are willing to spend to try to interfere with Tesla's success. They should stop screwing around and focus on EVs. The American automakers are even worse - we should not have saved them during the financial crisis. Let natural selection do it's job.
This concept only works until they run out of other people's money. As more and more people decide they don't "need" to work, there will be less and less people working and less and less money. TBH, I hope some country will really try to implement this at full scale - that way, we can all watch and applaud as it collapses. This is just more "free stuff for everyone" propaganda from politicians trying to trick the uneducated lower class people into voting them into power.
Social media is the foundation for a lot of the problems of our age. The messed up times we live in now will be remembered for the copy-cat mass murderers, fake news, and large scale state-sponsored social manipulation. Do something good for yourself and everyone in your life - delete your social media accounts and get back to being human again.
Lawyers must be foaming at the mouth with excitement. Why haven't we seen any big lawsuits about the forced loss of privacy and no options to buy a private non-spyware version?
You can be sure, this is not considered an advanced tool, worthy of protection. If you are able to use this tool to do something interesting, you might find yourself being contacted by a recruiter from a contractor with a strange name. If government salaries were not borderline poverty level, it might be fun.
Seriously, how many people have even driven a car over 112mph, and if so, why? Unless you live in a very remote place with very low population, the chance of traffic being light enough to even exceed the normal speed limit is pretty low.
As a hardware and software developer for over 25yrs, I have considered ARM many times and always run into the same problem. As much as we like to talk about multi-threading, there are still many applications where the single-thread performance is the most important. ARM performance is just barely good enough for mobile devices and very limited Android TV boxes. The performance of ARM is catching up though. Maybe in a 2-3 generations the performance will be good enough for people to tolerate ARM laptops and desktops.
I guess I'd still have to bring a phone with a good camera in any case. This might still be a good replacement for my aging Android tablet though. Thanks for the info.
We need a secure and anonymous internet where all traffic and content are encrypted and no bulk surveillance or government manipulation are possible or allowed. If the evil dictators cannot accept this, they do not deserve to be connected to the rest of the world - disconnect them. In reality, the internet is already fragmented anyways. Disconnecting the evil dictatorships would help to reduce the hacking and massive spam currently tainting our internet.
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The trade deficit is not domestic China GDP. I am in China and know what I see from my suppliers, about half of which have collapsed over the last 5yrs. You think you know what is going on, but you are just quoting what you read from the news media.
It was growing for a long time, yes. The days of growth are over though.
Don't believe the hype. Real GDP in China is negative. The 6% number is completely fabricated by the government, mostly based on heavily manipulated government investment and real estate. I have lived in China about half of the time for the last 20yrs. Many of our suppliers have closed or collapsed and reformed into different industries to try to survive. Our country (USA) has a real economy and freedoms the people of China are still dreaming of.
This is not new. Entire industries have been slowly moving to lower labor cost or lower political risk countries for many years. I've been in the consumer electronics business, watching the labor cost in China rise and rise for over 20yrs. It's not politics or conspiracy - just a natural economic rebalancing. China has entered "interesting" times... It will be interesting to see how well the people tolerate the totalitarian assholes when the economy collapses.
The entire US tax system has been purposely made more and more complicated by industry lobbyists, in order to create work for their entire industry. Any congressman that votes for this is a criminal.
For the last 20yrs, there has always been that 1 game I must play that is only working on Windows. Forget about Wine - performance matters. Technically though, I use both Windows and Linux - I just can't get rid of that one game, damn it.
It is really amazing how much time and money the old automakers are willing to spend to try to interfere with Tesla's success. They should stop screwing around and focus on EVs. The American automakers are even worse - we should not have saved them during the financial crisis. Let natural selection do it's job.
This concept only works until they run out of other people's money. As more and more people decide they don't "need" to work, there will be less and less people working and less and less money. TBH, I hope some country will really try to implement this at full scale - that way, we can all watch and applaud as it collapses. This is just more "free stuff for everyone" propaganda from politicians trying to trick the uneducated lower class people into voting them into power.
Social media is the foundation for a lot of the problems of our age. The messed up times we live in now will be remembered for the copy-cat mass murderers, fake news, and large scale state-sponsored social manipulation. Do something good for yourself and everyone in your life - delete your social media accounts and get back to being human again.
Anyone tested this on the dark side of the planet yet?
Just don't charge them near me or anything I own, thx.
It's not even dangerous ffs. You could do more damage bludgeoning someone with an iphone.
What about all of the Chinese people living in the free world? Is this discrimination against all Chinese language users?
Sorry, but seeing myspace mentioned, at all, was the most amazing part.
Lawyers must be foaming at the mouth with excitement. Why haven't we seen any big lawsuits about the forced loss of privacy and no options to buy a private non-spyware version?
You can be sure, this is not considered an advanced tool, worthy of protection. If you are able to use this tool to do something interesting, you might find yourself being contacted by a recruiter from a contractor with a strange name. If government salaries were not borderline poverty level, it might be fun.
Seriously, how many people have even driven a car over 112mph, and if so, why? Unless you live in a very remote place with very low population, the chance of traffic being light enough to even exceed the normal speed limit is pretty low.
As a hardware and software developer for over 25yrs, I have considered ARM many times and always run into the same problem. As much as we like to talk about multi-threading, there are still many applications where the single-thread performance is the most important. ARM performance is just barely good enough for mobile devices and very limited Android TV boxes. The performance of ARM is catching up though. Maybe in a 2-3 generations the performance will be good enough for people to tolerate ARM laptops and desktops.
I guess I'd still have to bring a phone with a good camera in any case. This might still be a good replacement for my aging Android tablet though. Thanks for the info.
Can anyone that owns one of these tell us how well it works for phone calls?
We need a secure and anonymous internet where all traffic and content are encrypted and no bulk surveillance or government manipulation are possible or allowed. If the evil dictators cannot accept this, they do not deserve to be connected to the rest of the world - disconnect them. In reality, the internet is already fragmented anyways. Disconnecting the evil dictatorships would help to reduce the hacking and massive spam currently tainting our internet.
Please... we desperately need a FOSS alternative to the "spyware as an operating system" that is Windows 10.
Quarantine those nasty buggers and give them their shots, while we have them together.
The network is hostile. If you think you don't need it, you are very naive.
Closed firmware... How is there not a class action lawsuit against Intel for this?